State of Sport Management

Our annual Zeigler podcast episode! This year's winner was Marijke Taks, who joined us to talk about her career journey. She talked about her PhD experience, transitioning to Canada, balance work and family, and her research along the way.

In the second part of our conference costs discussion, Dr. Kyle Rich joined us to provide perspective. We discussed his conference, benefits of running a smaller or larger conference, location value/cost, and the changing dynamics within the conference model.

The first part of our conference costs short series. Dr. Nels Popp walks us through the rising conference costs. We talk about conference site selection, hotel/host costs, conference experiences, and survey insights.

Really excited for this episode. With the huge push of AI happening this year, we brought in Dr. Yiran Su to talk about the intersection of AI and sport management. Our episode focused on academic (teaching + research) and practitioner impact. We talked about ChatGPT, Zoom, and other tech platforms!

We've talked before about collaboration on a research project, but now we want to talk about solo authorship. Dr. Elizabeth Delia at UMass joined to talk about her past experience working on solo papers: deciding on projects, writing sections, reviewer feedback, project management, and advice she would give to others.

Our next episode dives into theory with a new ESMQ article from Erik Lachance, Ashley Thompson, & Jordan Bakhsh. We discussed competing theoretical thoughts, creating new theory in/out of sport, blending theoretical approaches, proposing a new approach, and what it means for doc students/practitioners.

Kicking off our sixth season with an episode on parenting. We follow up on our previous work with Liz Sattler to give insight into parenting, particularly post-pandemic. We talk about "what to expect when you're expecting", having multiple kids, daycare, balancing your schedule, bringing your kids to work events, and much more!

The NASSM episode! We had Dr. Bri Newland lead us off by talking about NASSM governance and conference changes from the past two years, plus an overview of the upcoming schedule. Then Dr. Milena Parent took the lead on Montreal! She overviewed transportation from the airport, amenities around the conference, and events happening in Montreal that coincide with NASSM.

We welcome Dr. Chad McEvoy to talk about negotiation, particularly when considering both outside offers and a chance to stay at your current institution. We discussed the need for some institutions to consider an outside offer to re-negotiate with your current employer, salary adjustments, when to go on the market/when not to, application process, getting an offer, next steps, etc.

Our Zeigler Award Winner annual chat! The 2022 winner, Dr. Larena Hoeber, joined us to talk about qualitative research. We discussed qualitative research paradigms: her first time being exposed to paradigms, learning moments as a up-and-comer, layering our learning, advice to others, qualitative researchers she admires, and advice for reviewing qualitative research!

Candidate (soon to be Dr.!) Kerri Bodin and Dr. Teare joined the podcast to talk about knowledge translation in program evaluation. We discussed the Canadian sport context, sport-for-all compared to high performance, resources available to sport, supporting sport-for-all through knowledge translation, examples through wheelchair basketball + Baseball5, and knowledge translation without a formal partnership.

Episode 2 of our series is Robyn Smith talking about participatory research! Candidate Smith talked about different approaches and key values of participatory research, applications in diverse sport/community contexts, poor uses of PAR, reflection on her own experiences, and a mindset change for the field. We also talked about her experience as a PhD candidate and working to finish her degree, help her research stakeholders, and being a positive impact in the community.

Hummell & Huml! PhD Candidate Hummell came to talk about program evaluation in sport organizations. We discussed what is evaluation, it's importance, why programs should be considering evaluation within their decision making process, program evaluation within the sport management literature, different approaches, benefits/limitations, and why it should be prioritized. This episode is the first in a group of episodes for the Knowledge Translation Grant secured by the Brock University SMGT faculty, led by Dr. Kyle Rich. Check out more on their work at: https://www.krichsportandrec.com/iisport

We had a great time hosting, Dr. Andrea Geurin, who is the Director of the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough, to talk about her experiences working abroad and the various differences in higher education across different systems. We talked about summers being off (or not off!), annual leave, teaching loads, semester length differences, tenure, sabbatical options, student advising, higher education bureaucracy, grading, and much more!

Doctoral student, Tiao Hu, joined the podcast to provide her perspective of choosing and pursuing a PhD as an international student. We talked about her process choosing a PhD program. Then we talked about the challenges for international students in finding housing, securing a job, reviewing school districts for children, and creating a social network. Then we talked about potential higher education barriers, such as choosing an advisor and registering for courses. We finished our discussion talking about how her PhD program has been well suited to help her, areas of weakness, and upcoming job search.

Two Red Raiders joined me to talk about writing and writing groups! We talked about their early experiences writing in a doctoral program, feedback they've received over the years, how their writing has improved over the years, building a writing group, holding each other accountable, and finding the right partners. We bonded over working for TTU but not being a TTU grad leaves you startled when someone yells #GunsUp at you in a public place, plus finished with talking about the fun Lubbock food scene!

Dr. Alicia Cintron is back as a guest! We talked about her decision to leave academia, her process exploring career options, alt-academic careers, her new business! and skills she is using from her PhD in her business.

50th episode! Dr. Meg Hancock joined us to talk about big picture sport management/higher education topics. We discussed origins of sport management, enrollment pressures, the 1989 movie 'The Wizard', enrollment cliff, higher education costs, talking about current topics deemed politically divisive, and the great food scene in Louisville.

Kicking off Season 5 with my colleague at UC, Dr. Wayne Black! He joins the podcast to introduce us to Critical Research: What is it? The benefits of its approach, best papers to read using critical research, and applications within higher education and sport management. Dr. Black also described how he uses critical research in his own scholarship and why it's an important concept for others to learn.

Last episode of season 4! PhD students Siena Morgan (Loughborough University London) and Chelsey Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology) joined as guests to talk about their experience as part-time doctoral students. They each shared their background and other duties they are completing while doing doctoral work, decision process to go part-time, their program's reaction to their decision, program support and structure challenges for being a part-time student, and potential negatives/positives to being part-time.